Letter: Obamacare didn't make care more affordable

4:01 PM,
Nov. 6, 2013

Written by

Rob Wells
Titusville

The partisan Affordable Care Act was doomed from beginning for one reason: It didn't make health care more affordable, it simply redistributed the costs to more people.

The only way to make health care more affordable is to attack the exorbitant costs of lawsuits, drugs and insurance premiums. None of these were addressed because politicians are afraid to jeopardize millions of dollars in campaign contributions.

Drug companies are responsible for testing drugs to obtain approval before they go on the market. Drug companies load the cost of anticipated lawsuits into the price of the ...